many african-americans blamed lyndon johnson and founded theories as to why lyndon johnson was likely involved in president kennedy's assassination because he appeared to have the most to gain. letters came into mrs. kennedy condolence letters that would make this point from black letterwriters and telegram senders would essentially say they believed lyndon johnson was involved in john kennedy's death. this is the state of things when lyndon johnson becomes president. now he does everything he can in order to try to reassure black voters. he realizes he needs to win them over because from the very beginning, lyndon johnson is well aware the election is coming up one year from just under one year from the moment he is sworn in as president. he is looking to build coalitions and reassure liberals and african-american voters. he calls people like martin luther king, the southern christian leadership council conference he calls young of the urban league he calls roy wilson of the naacp to try to reassure these folks pretty goes to congress five days after present case ssa tells congress a

only 15% use lyndon johnson. there is a host of reasons as to why this plays out as a problem for lyndon johnson. certainly, you have the shifting nature of the civil rights moment where the legislation isn't seen as quite as important in some ways, when faced with things on the ground. but also, you have the vietnam war that is forcing more and more african americans into war, even though african americans, 11% of the population, they are being drafted at a higher percent, and they are being put into combat roles at a much higher percent of overall percentage of those folks in the war effort. the war effort is taking a toll, not only in the fact the young black soldiers are heading over there, but also the fact the war on poverty that is going to change everything, these kinds of social programs in the vein of fdr social program. war on poverty isn't being funded as a result of the vietnam war. we begin to see the promise of the great society program really isn't funded like the way we benefit a lot of african a

african americans blamed lyndon johnson and had theories as to why lyndon johnson was likely involved in president kennedy's assassination. them and letters came into them -- black letter writers. -- the election is coming up one year -- from the moment he is sworn in as president. looking to build coalitions and reassure liberals and the southern christian leadership conference is called, but beyond that the urban league -- on civil rights. so he's trying to turn the page and trying to win over black constituents from the beginning. but there is this nagging concern him. so over the course of the next administration, he's trying to use a lot of the same techniques. that he has used, symbolic acts like hiring people, appointments. lyndon johnson really fell victim to, number one, he is someone who many observers believe -- and this is something that is already happening in canada's administration. the movement itself is changing quite a bit, whereas, you know, there is a belief in august of 1963, a nonviolent movement led by dr. king can actually make the changes laws are being called

so over the course of lyndon johnson's administration he's trying to use a lot of the same techniques john kennedy has used symbolic acts like hiring people, appointments,

when lyndon johnson made as part of his great society program. where he really wanted anyone who needed a loan tohave a loan . and i think every step along the way there were good intentions but the way congress designed this program, i don't eventhink they knew what they were doing a lot of time. it was just kind of like , let's take this goal of expandingaccess , let's do it in the cheapest way we can think of. and i think that was the attention. it was like let's do something that is a really big jump but let's do it in the cheapest way possible and that's where problems started to happen. >> that's what's interesting because there are these generous intentions, lbj had his ownbones and he was a teacher as well . and he cared about education getting to the less served but at the same time the government didn'twant to have to bet on a book . they didn't want to account for the true cost so what ended up happening is this huge profit center for private industry. >> is it okay if id out a little bit? >> host: where else can you get this, come on.

and lyndon johnson, he was impatient. he had these goals and ever since college he was always in a rush. so he really wanted to solve inequality and address these big societal problems in a really quick way. again, good intentions but one of the things i learned is if you do it too quickly problems start to come up. anyways, why did the banks get involved? this is a key to your knowledge -- key turning point in the program. the federal deficit was rising very quickly because of all of the spending. so there was a concern, as there has been in the past 10 or 20 years that there is all of these other things that could happen to the broader economy. there was a thinking that a big deficit was bad. if you had a student loan program, the way that government did accounting was that if you generated a billion dollars in student debt in one year, federal spending would rise up by that much. >> in that one year? >> and then -- in that one year. so the program looked very expensive when you gave students loans. and when students pa

johnson, and she's currently finishing up her first book, the trinity, john kennedy, lyndon johnson, and their civil rights legacies in african-american imagination, and let me say it's really good. so without further ado, the webinar is yours. >> thank you so much, jeff. and thanks to all my fellow panelists. this has been so riveting so far. as jeff said, my interest has been in african-american civil rights and specifically the presidencies of john john kennedy and lyndon johnson. and point of privilege i'd like to swipe joanne's formulation of how she wanted to talk about flavors of presidential hatred. i think that that's a really terrific way of kind of narrowing our focus. just to note all of these presidents have their haters and they come in different flavors. and one of the things i wanted to do with my session today was to just talk a little bit about the way that lyndon johnson was hated in particular by african-american voters, and to really focus in on that. even though there will be lots of parallels to the reasons why other constituencies hated lyndon johnson. i wante

i think the bottom to her interests include john adams and lyndon johnson. we are not going to see these presidents on other rankings. perhaps this is a partly because in this study, scholars and tended to more presidents that served in the era in which they did their research. so, if you did research on colonial america and the early american republic to be more likely to think john adams was a great president. we, today, perhaps harshly criticize him. the act criminalized as the united states is gearing up for a potential war with france, it was entirely political on adam's opponents that were affiliated with jefferson. lyndon johnson, another president who is certainly going to be a controversial one. they generally like his domestic policies but find a lot to desire in his prosecution of the vietnam war where he conceals a true extent of united states involvement from the public. and makes a number of tactical decisions that potentially undermine the chances of the united states prevailing. in 1997 publish rating the presidents pray they take a poll of 7

does anybody think that the president as time goes on that we will that. >> i think that lyndon johnson is undergoing this reputation i think that will continue. especially given that congress is so polarized and so dysfunctional, i think a lot of people revere his legislative skills and able to get a lot done so i think so long as the government continues to be divided and polarized. >> i think obama's one right now obviously his presidency is going on is heartbreaking and greatness yet. so i think the situation that he adopted when he became president all that he has in his first year or whatever else he has done socially, i think he's accomplished a lot for what he had to deal with in time and he has been president so i think that is maybe one and will look back and be less critical of its we realize all that he has accomplished and faced. >> and potential in the future all the presidents recently will undergo this in some circumstances considering now we have just what has happened immediately after as time goes on we may see these issues are not as drastic as they once were. for in

lyndon johnson deserves credit for the achievement but there was a broader group of votes involved. martin lutherking, the selma heroes marching for legislation, all important. but in the actual chamber itself it's important to point out that lyndon johnson was very clear and expressed it to any number of people that the bill had to be bipartisan and everett dirksen had to abrie to the bill and had to bring along a majority of the republican members in the senate. the renewal of the bill in 1982, dole was one of the big players. bush signed the renewal, the house and senate were in favor of it. they were bipartisan efforts. bipartisan is in fact the only approach that you can deal with election law changes where you can help bank the fire for present lack of confidence in some areas. but that's not what we're looking at here. we're looking at a process that would fundamentally move most of election administration, which is principally at state and local levels, into a much more regulated federal process. and that is in my opinion fundamentally a mistake. our process works pretty wel

and with the economic proposals as 1964 lyndon johnson's landslide was huge 61 percent to the barry goldwater johnston came in with a democratic senators and the one for the house majority this entire shambles of capitol hill with more to come but it is unconstitutional and illegitimate. i will need to say so clearly. tell us what you think at steve hilton and share this message. now let's bring in our guest never let a crisis go to waste fox news contributor tammy bruce. let's start with one of the two fundamental objections the legitimacy question. it is so brazen that pushing through the radical agenda after the results they got in the election. >> while there is never mandate with the left that's why they pretend which is why your monologue put it perfectly how joe biden presented himself. they knew he would never get elected unless they gave him and what this confirms to us is that it's never about what the american people wanted if it was they would be governing like senator sinema she one out of millions of votes with 55000 against senator make sally she knows her state is divided and

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johnson during 1965 at the height of the civil rights movement when the voting right -- movement. when the voting rights act was last re-authorized it passed the u.s. senate with a unanimous vote of 98-0. it is my hope that in the u.s. senate there'll be bipartisan support for whatever kinds of bill they can pass that is still something that's a work in progress. section 5 up until 2013 had a specific formula that the supreme court rejected, as i had mentioned. what h.r. 4 does is rewrite the trigger formula, creating a new structure and in a nutshell what h.r. 4 would do would be to give the attorney general of the united states the authority to request federal election observers, if there are serious threats of discrimination, the bill also adds new triggers for violations of the voting rights act including a new formula that would address current discrimination tactics when evaluating a state or locality's history of voter discrimination. in particular, these voting rights violations that we require -- that we require the federal court or justice department to review a new law

johnson who had a great agenda as well. but we always remind everybody that franklin roosevelt had 319 democrats in the congress at the time, we had 220, that makes a big difference. so again the transformative agenda, the president was knowledgeable, he knows this because he wrote this, he campaigned on this. he spoke to this in the state of the union address and i told him last night had this morning, on the phone last night but today, in front of the colleagues that when i get that state of the union address, we are standing behind him and the vice president of the united states, kamala harris and speaker of the house and me. and people said, how did it feel, and it was exciting but what was really exciting is the speech the president made about women. it not two women but america's laminate and what would happen with this progressive agenda and he was putting forth. and at the same time, moving forward with this, once a century chance to rebuild the infrastructure that is been asked the senate a while back. this has goo

johnson who had great agenda as well. we remind everyone, franklin roosevelt had 319 democrats in the house at the time, we have 220. the president was knowledgeabling her knows chapter and verse because he wrote this. he spoke to this in his state of the union address. i spoke to him last night but i told him today in front of our colleagues, when he gave that state of the union address, we were sitting behind him, vice president of the united states, kamala harris, and the speaker of the house, me, and people said how did it feel, two women. i said that was exciting and historic. but what's really exciting is the speech the president made about women. not about two women but about america's women. and what would happen with this progressive agenda he's putting forth. at the same time we're moving forward with this, a once in a century chance to rebuild infrom have you canture that has -- passed the senate a while back. this has good things and it has missing things. and of course the fact that we have the reconciliation

we saw that with lyndon johnson's great society with the affordable health care act to a degree. there is also less chance of them making fundamental change. laura: this could still unravel, could net? given -- couldn't it? >>i think they are closer now than they ever have en there it that is why mr. biden felt he could take this step by announcing a framework. it is an outline of a bill. some of the key details are being hammered out. it is not a difference of two factions between the democratic party. it is to hold out democratic senators. they are the ones they are the ones that have forced the scale back of the cut down of mr. biden's signature legislation. you have had invested interest lobbying as well. fossil fuel industry and pharmaceutal industry have been lobbying hard to water it down. laura: president biden jets off now to the g20 and the climate summit. he says it important for the world to see american lead. is that why he was making this announcement when it is far from a final bill? >>i think you want to go to europe with some kind of deal in hand. he wants to rep

lyndon johnson would relate totally unrelated things in one civil rights bill. he related a dam in hell's canyon to try to get it passed. sometimes you've got to find out what your opponent wants. if it's totally unrelated to what you're doing, then sometimes you have to give consideration to it. >> well, point well taken there. what about the white house signaling that possible shift in the plan to hike taxes on the wealthy and corporations? we know senator kyrsten sinema remains pretty staunchly opposed to that. how tough will it be, sir, to pay for the bill if that component is off the table? >> well, the wealth tax is something worthy of consideration. a good many wealthy people don't pay any taxes at all, although they're earning money from their wealth. so i think that is clearly worthy of consideration. as i do also with a minimum corporate tax of more than 50 of the largest corporations in this country paid no taxes on their profits from 2020. i think that corporations ought to pay some minimal amount of taxes. and i think that a wealth tax may be a way

johnson, and richard nixon faced not only political opponents, but americans who hated them. an american historical association panel discussed the reason. and at 8:00 p.m., two programs on women's political causes in the late 18th century. professor allison lange featured a class on the women's suffrage movement, drawing from her book during political power. she discusses how activists and opponents used imagery to support causes. at 8:40, professor heather coxe richardson talked about the new roles women assumed in the workforce and politics during the late 19th century. the employment gains women made in nursing, teaching, and social work. she looked at the growth of political organizations run by women focusing on prohibition and women's suffrage. book tv features leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern, coverage of the 21st annual national book festival. a virtual event hosted by the library of congress featuring live and taped segments. authors include joseph ellis, erica, catherine delton, joshua yap, janice nomura, olivia

when he became vice president in 1965, john joined him in the -- and president lyndon johnson's administration. john left washington for knoxville in 1980, continuing his career at the tennessee valley authority as assistant general manager and vice president for economic and community development. mr. burchett: he retired from t.v.a. in 1994. he founded the georgia institute of administration in georgia and served as a consultant on the safety and advisory panel. all close to john can attest he cared about people in an extraordinary way. for example, after the 2008 kingston ole coal ash spill, they raised funds for workers whose health was severely hurt. he fought for people who couldn't fight for themselves. his generous spirit touched everyone in his life and he will be missed by all who knew him. he's sur private by his wife of 64 years and two children, mike and cara. on a personal note, john helped me when i was in the state senate to abolish tennessee's sales tax on food. he'll be missed. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose

., about the great society, lyndon johnson. if some version of this, you know, in the range of what everybody is now sort of thinking about passes, where does the white house put this in history since you used that term so many times? is this on par with the new deal? is this on par with what -- does this go beyond what lyndon johnson tried to do? you talked now about the fundamental altering of society as it relates to climate change. how much should the people who are now debating this feel they are doing in the context of history? jen: well, i don't know that we have a new label to put on it. maybe in the future people look back and say how does this compare to build back better, we'll see. but when i'm talking about with history here -- and i'll be short here. i'll promise. but creating infrastructures, that could be built upon. similar to what happened with the affordable care act. that's what we're trying to d with universal pre-k. that's something for decades to come could be built upon and become better. and as it relat

you have it with a lyndon b. johnson sticker on the side of it. you need to get out of here as fast as you can. yes sir. >> george washington who built this house and lived here for many years, he passed away at the age of 67. can you imagine what it was like to be the general in revolutionary war with very few troops fighting against the best army in the world? if you ever had a chance to meet with him, would you have liked to ask him? >> how did you analyze these situations? how did you decide to take a chance here was to mark he was a remarkable soldier. he lost quite a few battles. he kept coming back. he has been in different parts of the army and different sections of the security system. he improved with each exercise. he never lost faith in himself. he never lost faith in the country he was doing it for. that was remarkable. i would i be the same kind of person -- would i be the same kind of person? not in the kind of situations he was facing. he had the country, far away from home. that was a disadvantage. the president at the time, our p

l lyndon johnson had 68. clinton had 57. obama had 59. this guy has 50. and he's trying something as big as has been tried in at least half a century. my hat is off to him. >> he doesn't really have 50. d dana, let me ask you something. >> he doesn't. that's right. >> he does not have control of 50 and the guy supposed to be in control isn't part of the process. the idea of the big fight, i think that if there is any list of regrets to be written by the democrats after the midterms, not putting voting rights at the top and really the only thing on their list may be there because i've never seen a bigger misplay honestly about something that matters this much. the filibuster is the key. manchin doesn't want to touch the filibuster. anderson was correct in moving biden specifically on to that issue after a question. here is what he said on point. >> i also think we're going to have to move to the point where we fundamentally alter the filibuster. >> are you saying once you get this current agenda passed on spending and social programs, that you would be ope

and lyndon johnson had won by 61% in the 1964 election. there isn't mandate for the -- the kind of progressive agenda that the 95 members of the progressive caucus in -- in the house would like to have. the challenge really for the president is to be pragmatic and to remind folks that you can only use power that you have. and the fact of the matter is that representative jayapal is pushing for an outcome for which her caucus just doesn't have the votes. and they have to work with moderates. now, if they don't want any kind of deal, that's very possible. but if you want a deal in this congress at this time, you have got to count the votes and the votes are not with the progressives. >> they're not with anybody at this point is what i am seeing. you know, gloria, it's not as you are talking about what's in or out of the bill. it's also how to pay for it. i mean, that they are clearly not determined on. they have got senate democrats unveiled today a billionaire's wealth tax as one revenue source. but what do you think is actually the bigger

johnson put them in place in the 1960's and it will make us split further in society because you take something like child -- early childhood education, universal pre-k, that's the responsibility of a family to raise their children. what happens is you have these other parts of the country in big cities especially where you have groups that have a high rate of unmarried women having children, no family structure but you will say don't worry the government will take care of your children at a young age. it would basically be indoctrination. you are doing a further destruction of family units which is the foundation for the society. the parents raise the children and that's not healthy. it's pushing things further the other direction which is going to mean a disaster and to preserve the republic,, -- the constitutional republic we are, you have to have healthy foundations with healthy family structure which means parents of children and they raise them. that's where the strength of the society comes from. this is counter to that. host: congressman? guest: thanks for the kong -- for the

lyndon johnson was famous for that. we have to get back to the basics here, that maybe this president is forgetting that if he's saying that i'm different, i beat bernie sanders, i'm not echoing or doing the things that bernie sanders wants when in fact right now it does appear that it is a bernie sanders-led effort, these got to act like it. presidents have that bull horn and his chance to really leverage that. i'm a huge believer in personal equity in something. the little thing i try to do is personally invite guests to my show. sometimes they return the letter ripped up in a million pieces but my point is, i think you got to make a connection. i don't think the same applies to the leader of the free world. the idea of sweat equity manneders and the president has been standing back and letting others speak for him. if he believes the infrastructure package is important, dammit, make sure you're conveying it's important and get to the legislators and you make your pitch. i think they just got to get to that active rol

whether it is fdr or lyndon johnson. so, this is the challenge she's got. but historically, this is a very big deal. at the same time, the risks are enormous because of these slim majorities and that is what he was trying to get across to people yesterday. that everything is on the line for the party right now. yamiche: sticking with you, dan, there is the virginia governor's race that jonathan just talked about. a new poll shows education is the number one issue now and that race. it is about critical race theory. democrats have been saying truthfully that critical race theory is not summing that is taught in elementary school and republicans falsely saying it is. how does that race connect to this bill and the calculations the president is making? dan: jonathan made the point that terry mcauliffe has been pleading with congressional democrats to get this done. and, the campaign of his team was not overly happy today as a result of what happened yesterday. it was as if all of this issue of frustration among democrats, democratic voters, that things were no

when in the 1960's when lyndon johnson launched medicare, it was called a march toward socialism. so let's be clear. this is not some sort of an academic debate when these terms are being tossed around over how we describe investing in basic floor of decency. you can call it what you want to call it. the term has been weaponized by republicans to scare people. and all i'm trying to point out is that it's that same argument that was used when social security was being put on the table. maybe that's the point that the caller's making the same argument that was used when medicare was being advanced. poll americans right now and ask them if they think in order to udo what then was called socialism, we should eliminate social security and medicare and i think we'll know what the answer would be. host: congressman, what happens today on negotiations? what should people be looking out for? guest: right now, a lot of the focus is on the revenue side of this question. so i think what we should be trying to focus on its what aspects of what is being proposed on the senate side, particularly

when lyndon johnson was majority leader and then-president, he would be able to threaten senators with think that would really scare them, like being taken off key committees or having campaign funds cut or being iced out of power in certain ways. that really does not happen in the modern senate. every senator is a king and queen on their own. it is very difficult to pressure them to do things they don't want to do. i think the president and other democratic leaders are doing everything they can to keep kyrsten sinema at the table. i think this bill will be passed eventually but it is tougher to do -- to try to persuade. host: is there a best way forward for moderate and progresses to come together to hash out these issues internally ? guest: yes, and i think that is essentially what is happened. -- happening. the president needs to be in the center of negotiating and i think he is. he met with a group of moderates yesterday. this ping-pong negotiation is the way these deals get done. it is what happened when senator nelson was unhappy about one thing and others were unhappy about othe

just the way lyndon johnson, bill clinton, and robert -- ronald reagan worked across party lines. it is fine for the president to call democrats together for the sake of the country and also for the sake of the party and him. i hope that's what we are going to see. if not, i fear democrats will suffer next year in the congressional elections and probably also in the presidential election two years later. host: let's go to our democrats line, moses -- sorry, i will get to you next. jim in medford, oregon next up. guest: i was looking forward to moses, but ok. go ahead, jim, sorry. caller: joe, your centrist idea has not exactly worked for the working class. nor the poor, throughout the time. i think that your ideas are pretty archaic in terms of what is going on in the world today. your opinion during the situation where you think that the left needs to move to the center, it should be the other way around. you people should move to the left because your policies have done nothing for the poor and the working class since you've been in. you allowed ronald reagan's policies to destr

but if you go back long before my parents even knew each other in the fourties and fifties when lyndon johnson was the senate majority leader and was famous for arm twisting of senators in order to get legislation that he wanted across the line to get those, those bills past, you know, this is a time honored congressional tradition negotiate negotiate, but don't give away what could be the most you want until the very last 2nd. there used to be the some tradition of maybe they would try to get these bills done mid summer. so that members of congress could go away and take august off. that doesn't happen any more. now with this idea of passing continuing resolutions, little patchwork bills to keep the government operating. you see these a 11th hour gamesmanship bob events happening really, really frequently. but it's a basics of political negotiation. don't cut a deal until you absolutely have to when usually that means that the money is about to run out trade stuff. great. context there with rosalind jordan in washington, d. c. thank you. now the former president of georgia, macau socc